Reading is key

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

Charlie Cook

Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book
— Axel Scheffler & Julia Donaldson (2005).



Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke


Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Sir Francis Bacon

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
John Steinbeck
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“Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.”
Sigmund Freud
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“When we are not sure, we are alive.”
Graham Greene
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“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
Steven Pinker
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Joseph Conrad also wrote The Secret Sharer (oh Jay)
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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
Franz Kafka


If you do not like to read, you have not [yet] found the right book.

— J. K. Rowling

Author: Anna Bidoonism

Poems, prose & literary analysis—this is who I am.

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